Chapter 187: The Great Army Salutes
After sending off Lin Qirong and other soldiers and horses, Xiao Yungui turned his head and saw Zhou Xiuying at the gate of the camp, there was a beautiful girl next to her, but it was Li Xuanji who had not been seen for many days, Yang Dongqing stayed in Wuxi, and Li Xuanji followed Hong Yuner to Shanghai. Zhou Xiuying obviously came to bid farewell to her old father, with the light of the torches at the gate of the camp, I saw that the two girls were standing there pretty, Zhou Xiuying was a heroic and healthy beauty, and Li Xuanji was the beauty of the boudoir of the weak and graceful, the two girls had their own charm, like two flowers competing for beauty, which made people look fascinated.
Xiao Yungui swallowed greedily, and thought to himself, these two chicks are really good, if it weren't for the four-eyed sister in the way, Young Master Ben would have eaten them a long time ago.
On the side, Hong Yun'er suddenly snorted coldly and said, "What are you looking at?" Watch out for eye beads falling out. ”
Xiao Yungui came back to his senses and said with a dry smile: "I haven't seen Sister Xuanji for a long time, I just want to see if I'm fat or thin." ”
Hong Yun'er snorted lightly and said, "Your eyes are like the ghost of a hungry wolf, I don't know what your idea is?" Once again, I seriously warn you, Xuanji is a good girl, you don't want to beat her idea, otherwise I will not be polite to you! ”
Xiao Yungui snorted and said, "I'll leave the matter of dealing with the foreign priests tomorrow to you, take them outside the north gate to see how many people those Qinggou have killed." I'm going back to rest, and I'm going to leave tomorrow morning, so you can rest too. After speaking, Xiao Yungui shook his head and walked towards his big tent, thinking about whether to wait for the four-eyed sister to sleep, and then get that little Guan Dao Mu Yinghong into the tent? As long as it's done secretly, the four-eyed girl won't find out.
Thinking of this, Xiao Yungui was full of joy, and was about to hurry back to the big tent to make arrangements, but he didn't expect Hong Yun'er to suddenly say behind him: "I forgot to tell you, I have already sent someone to supervise the captured female general, and I will persuade her tonight." Let's see if we can get the Guan Dao Gang to join us through her, so that we can get rid of one of the Qing Demon's arms when we fight Shanghai. ”
Xiao Yungui suddenly zhanzhu, a mouthful of old blood almost spurted out, and when he looked back, Hong Yun'er beckoned Li Xuanji and Zhou Xiuying to go back to the women's camp with a smile on her face, and deliberately twisted her waist when she left, so that her seductive posture made Xiao Yungui fascinated by the firelight. Xiao Yungui cursed the four-eyed sister with indignation in his heart, only to feel that what he thought seemed to be known by the four-eyed sister, and she was eaten to death, could he really only hang himself on this tree? Seeing that Zuihou's trace of lust was also ruthlessly broken. Xiao Yungui had no choice but to return to the military tent dejectedly, wash and sleep early.
Hong Yun'er returned to her own military tent in the women's camp and talked to Zhou Xiuying and Li Xuanji for a while. Zhou Xiuying is a martial woman, and she has also heard of the famous name of Hong Xuanjiao, the flower of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the sister of the Heavenly King, who can fight well, after saying a few words. He proposed to learn knife skills with Hong Yun'er. Zhou Xiuying also made double knives, and she knew that she had met her opponent as soon as she saw the mandarin duck double knives on the waist of Xi Wangniang. The technique is unbearable. Regardless of whether it is suitable or not, he will ask for a martial arts competition.
Hong Yun'er smiled faintly and said: "It's not early, I have to go out tomorrow, Xuanji, you take Miss Zhou down to rest first, the matter of learning will be long, and after Miss Zhou's injury is healed, how about we have another competition?" ”
Zhou Xiuying then remembered that she had just been beaten with thirty military sticks. It is indeed a little inconvenient to move, and after answering the moment, I went down to rest with Li Xuanji.
After the two girls left, Hong Yun'er ordered the female soldiers outside the tent to bring Mu Yinghong up. After a while. The female soldier brought Mu Yinghong into the tent, and Hong Yun'er instructed the female soldier to move a chair for her to sit down and talk, and then ordered the female soldier to wait outside the tent.
After Mu Yinghong was captured, she was almost eaten in a daze in the West Wang's tent, and later she was taken away by the female guards of the West Wangniang, but fortunately, these female guards did not embarrass her, wrapped herbs on her injured leg, put a splint on it, and gave her a meal, and rested for a while, Mu Yinghong's spirits were slightly lifted.
At this moment, she was taken to the tent by Xi Wang Niang again, and Mu Yinghong didn't know what the beautiful Xi Wang Niang in front of her was going to do, but seeing that she had a good face and a graceful figure, she was a little more beautiful than herself, and she couldn't help but be secretly jealous.
Hong Yun'er didn't talk to her much, and directly explained that she could be let go back, but after Mu Yinghong went back, she had to persuade the Guan Dao Gang to surrender, and Shanghai was already surrounded by the heavenly soldiers of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.
Hong Yun'er is eloquent, and after some threats and temptations, Mu Yinghong, who has no opinions, agreed. Hong Yun'er immediately agreed with her that she could be let go back tonight, and after the people of the Guandao Gang gathered tomorrow morning, they would open the south gate of Shanghai City to receive the Taiping Army into the city.
Then Hong Yun'er ordered the female soldiers to lead a horse and let Mu Yinghong ride back to Shanghai overnight. Watching Mu Yinghong's figure disappear into the darkness outside the camp, Hong Yun'er sighed lightly and said to herself: "I hope this stupid girl won't succeed, otherwise there will be one more person that bastard is worried about." ”
In the early morning of the next day, as soon as the sky was bright, Xiao Yungui was called up by Hong Yun'er. Xiao Yungui was still having a wonderful spring dream, in the dream, Hong Yun'er, Li Xuanji, and several beautiful women were sleeping with him, so unhappy, he was suddenly woken up, and there was nowhere to vent the evil fire in his stomach, and when he was about to get angry, he saw that the person in front of him was Hong Yun'er, this guy had to sigh, this four-eyed girl was really cruel, she had to interrupt even a beautiful dream, and let people not live?
Hong Yun'er smiled and stood with her hands in her hands and said, "Hurry up, follow the big guys to worship, today is Sunday, just to show those missionaries how our Taiping Heavenly Kingdom worships." ”
Xiao Yungui turned over and remembered, but suddenly found that his crotch was wet, and he couldn't help muttering and cursing in his heart, blaming the damn four-eyed sister, Xiao Yungui, who hadn't tasted the taste of a dream for a long time, actually overflowed after the small teapot was full last night.
Xiao Yungui was also thick-skinned, and said quietly: "Well, you go out first, I'll freshen up and come." ”
Hong Yun'er didn't see that she was still a girl before she crossed over, although she also knew that there was such a thing as a dream when she was in a physiology and hygiene class, but she didn't see any flaws, and she didn't feel that it was inappropriate, so she left the sentence You hurry up and go out.
As soon as Hong Yun'er left, Xiao Yungui hurriedly got up, changed his clothes and pants, hurriedly freshened up and turned out of the camp, and the dirty clothes and pants were casually thrown on the side of the bed.
After leaving the camp tent, Xiao Yungui came to the center of the camp with his personal guards, and in addition to the soldiers and generals on duty in the camp, the rest of the thousands of soldiers were lined up to wait. Xiao Yungui came to the center of the field and led the soldiers to start worshipping.
In the Taiping Heavenly Army, they had to worship God before breakfast and dinner, and they had to worship every seven days, even when they were marching and fighting. On Sundays, all the people were to dress up and stand silently, and they were to follow the warden in praise of God, and to praise the burning of the watch and the ascension to heaven, and at the same time to kneel and pray silently, and at the same time to rise up and shout with the same madness to kill all the demons. But since Xiao Yungui came, he made a slight change in the worship service in the West Temple, and he introduced some Christian worship services to make the worship of the Taiping Army in the West Temple look less strange.
Under the leadership of the military warden, everyone began to sing the "Song of the Resurrection of Christ" in unison, followed by the warden to praise God, in the silence of the people, there were more than ten wardens in the army in unison to sing "The Lord is in the Temple", followed by the warden singing the hymn "Song with the Lord's Heart", and then everyone followed the prayer, the main warden preached in public, today's sermon is the chapter of the Bible, followed by the military warden to bless the soldiers of the army, zuihou sang "Ode to Amen" in unison.
Although Xiao Yungui often followed his mother to worship under the influence of his mother in his later life, he actually did not fully remember the rituals necessary for each worship, and the rituals of worship were different in different Christian churches, and he couldn't figure out whether the rituals he handed over to the warden of the West Temple were right.
Fortunately, those foreign missionaries in the field all followed the solemn silence, although they could not understand Chinese, and there were soldiers in the Taiping army, and the accents were mixed and impure, even Yan Matai and others, who could understand Chinese, did not know what these Taiping soldiers were chanting, but from the pious and solemn expressions on the faces of each soldier, it could be seen that they were indeed worshipping very seriously.
After the service was finally completed, the troops returned to the camp and prepared to have breakfast before marching. The Qingpu rebels did not believe in religion, they served as the duty of the camp in the morning, but there were still many Qingpu rebels who watched the whole ceremony curiously, and when the prayer was over, everyone shouted to kill the demons, and a group of Qingpu rebels couldn't help but shout along.
After the army dispersed, Yan Matai and other missionaries surrounded the Xiwang couple and talked nonsense, Hong Yun'er also listened to a general idea, Luo Weilin, Meadows and others said that the worship ceremony of the Taiping Army was very similar to the ceremony of the London Society, but there were some details that needed attention, such as the worship should be in the church, there should be a cross, and candles should be lit, etc., hoping that the Taiping Army could join the London Society. Yan Matai and others said that they were willing to be baptized by the Taiping Army, hoping that through exchanges, the Taiping Army's missionary activities would be more formalized. The French missionary Ong Yige said excitedly that he could write to the archbishop of Rome, hoping to re-establish a church in the East as a branch of Christianity in the East, and this church could be called the Peace Church, which is orthodox Christianity like the London Church.
Xiao Yungui and Hong Yun'er looked at each other, they knew that these missionaries wanted to win the approval of the Taiping Army believers, so that hundreds of thousands of Taiping soldiers would become believers, then they would definitely achieve great success, you must know that they had been working hard in the East for more than ten years, and they had only won one or twenty thousand believers, if they could convert hundreds of thousands of Taiping soldiers to orthodox Christianity, then this missionary would undoubtedly be recorded in history forever by the church.
Xiao Yungui finally opened his loud voice to silence the missionaries, and then said: "Missionaries, thank you for your kindness, but our army is now at war, and after the battle, we will seriously consider your opinions." I'm sorry, but now I'm going out with my soldiers, and my wife will take you to the north gate to see the atrocities of the Qing army, and then send you back. It is my sincere hope that we will be able to discuss doctrine and theology with the churches after the war in Shanghai is over. After finishing speaking, Xiao Yungui smeared oil on the soles of his feet and slipped away, leaving a group of foreign devils to Hong Yun'er to greet him. (To be continued.) )